Evidence boards and clippings
13 photo treatments, including an evidence board, a newspaper clipping, a magnifying glass and a polaroid, made from your own pictures.
Turn a case script into a case-file video
True crime lives on evidence: dates, places, names and documents. Vid Optimus shows them the way the genre does, with evidence boards, clippings, name tags and place stamps, and every word on screen comes from your own narration.
The old way vs the Vid Optimus way
What usually slows this kind of video down, and how Vid Optimus handles it.
The usual problems
Full-frame stock looks like every other channel
A case told over generic city b-roll loses the feel of a file being opened, piece by piece.
On-screen text takes hours by hand
Name tags, dates and place stamps for a 30-minute case can mean a day in a motion-graphics tool.
A wrong name or date costs trust
AI tools that invent on-screen words are a real risk when the facts are the whole point.
With Vid Optimus
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Paste your researched script
Kept word for word. AI Director reads the whole case into a Story Bible first, so each location keeps one look.
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Switch on treatments and headings
Photo treatments turn pictures into evidence boards and clippings; Headings on pictures adds quotes, place stamps and big numbers from what is said.
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Add the names by hand
Name tags and chapter titles are yours to place, on the Visuals screen, using words the narration says.
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Grade and export
A Cold thriller or Noir colour look, a Cold open hook before scene 1, then a frame-accurate MP4.
The features that matter most for true crime & mystery channels
Every plan includes every feature. These are the ones you'll use the most.
Name tags and place stamps
8 heading styles laid over the picture. Every word must be said in the scene, or it is left off.
A look that sets the mood
Cold thriller and Noir colour looks, with film grain and a vignette, across the whole video.
FAQ
Questions from true crime & mystery channels
Quick answers before you try it.
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Can a name tag or headline show a name my script does not say?
No. Headings and treatment captions only show words the scene's narration says. Anything else gets a warning and is left off.
Will the same house or street look the same each time it comes up?
Yes, with Story continuity on (the default). Each place in the Story Bible gets a fixed description that is added to every picture set there.
Can the people in the case keep the same face?
Turn on consistent characters and the Story Bible adds them to your cast with a description. On Runware and the Vidoptimus Image Server each gets a reference portrait that goes with every shot they are in.
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